FQC | Read quality control

Facilitates quality control (QC) of FASTQ files. FQC combines a command line interface (CLI) depending on FastQC for processing FASTQ files, and a frontend website for plotting, styling and interactivity. The CLI wraps FastQC and builds the website with default QC metrics upon which one can expand without additional programming. The CLI and dashboard lower the threshold of performing and following up on quality issues that may be apparent upon visual inspection and it promotes evidence-based protocol changes in sequencing facilities to generate better quality data.

Supported by the Microbiomes in Transition Initiative LDRD Program at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a multi-program national laboratory operated by Battelle for the DOE under Contract DE-AC06-76RL01830.